The seat part actually has the same slo-mo closure as the lid. I probably should have demonstrated both, but what can I say? Sometimes a girl gets flustered when she's filming a toilet seat demonstration.

The toilets I worked with may have once been polite, I don't know. When I knew them they were broken, battered and bewildered. Crushed by a thousand nameless indignities. "The things we've seen, Timmy" they used to say. "The things we've seen".

my ex bro in law/sis in law had one of these in their mcmansion in atlanta about 4 yrs. ago; it was the first i'd ever seen and it was freaky deaky. i'm with kirk up above; it's The Plant closing down on its prey. watch your bee-hinds erin and goat...watch them closely.